O, well-gifted disciples, the Buddhas of Four Meanings are not something else--the purification of the Realistic View is the Buddha Victor (Rnam-b'ar-rgyal-wa); the purification of the Nihilistic View is the Buddha of Death. Gshin-rje-gshed-b'o; the purification of the Ego-View is the Buddha of Horse [-Head] (Rta-mgrin); the purification of the Form-View is the Buddha of Nectar-Flowing.

FOLIO 25

Picture: The Female Buddha of the Four Meanings.

Text

Hum! To you, the well-destined disciples,

I now impart the Female Buddhas of Four Meanings. Having purified the four ways of birth,

May you attain the Initiation of the Four Performances.

Batsa Om Gu Sha la Sa Sha Mo Da Gen De Ahbi Aitsa Ah! (The Guru makes the wish for the disciples:)

Now you, the disciples have attained the Initiation of the Four Female Deities. Thus, the gates of the Four Births will be shut off, the four Infinities will arise from your heart--the four great performances through which you

will be able to benefit sentient beings without the slightest hindrances. Thus you will accomplish the career of benefiting others. May you attain all these merits and powers! (The Pointing-Out Practice:)

O well-destined disciples, the Four Female Buddhas are but the natural purification of the Thought of the Four Births[r_7:9]. The birth from metamorphosis is the Iron-Chain Goddess; the natural purification of the thought of birth from the womb is the Rope Female Buddha. The natural purification of the thought of birth from eggs is the Iron-Fetter Female Buddha. The natural purification of the thought of the warmth-wetness is the Bell Goddess. From the very beginning they are identical! O well-gifted ones! You should definitely know these --as they are unmistakably true--and bear this conviction with you.

FOLIOS 26-41

Are not of first importance to initiation per se or are ideationally repetitious and hence have not been translated. Ed.

FOLIO 42

The Pointing-Out demonstration for the complete [company of] Fierce Buddhas

The Guru says to the disciples:

O well-gifted disciples, these sixty Blood-Drinking Deities are not something else, they are one's own kles'as-group, purified but not abandoned. The insubstantial or the perceiver that is devoid of any self-nature awareness manifests itself as the sixty Blood-Drinking Deities. As illustrated, in the Palace-Beyond-Measure in one's skull-brain, a group of Blood-Drinking Deities now actually and vividly dwell[r_7:10]. The forty-two Peaceful Deities with